I’m working on a family where the mother was named Elizabeth. A daughter was named Elizabeth. Three of the sons married women named Elizabeth.
To keep myself straight, I made a list of all five Elizabeths and summarized their biographical and genealogical information–name; dates and places of birth, death, and marriage; names of parents; names of all spouses; and place of burial.
The intention of the chart was to help me avoid confusion later. It did more than that. Creating the chart made me realize that I’d nearly confused two of the Elizabeths who had married sons of Elizabeth.
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Michael, I have a family like that, too. Mother Elizabeth, only daughter Elizabeth, and 6 of the 7 sons married women named Elizabeth, two of whom were cousins with the same last name. The other brother married a sister of one of those same name cousins. Confused much?
It’s easy to confuse individuals in families of that type.